Stephen Checkley
Research Software Engineer at UK Research and Innovation
Greater Cheshire West and Chester Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolStephen Checkley is an interdisciplinary research software engineer with 12+ years of hands-on experience delivering computational and experimental solutions across life sciences, pharma drug discovery, and data science. He currently manages portfolios at UK Research and Innovation, leading projects from quick proofs of concept to £1m interdisciplinary R&D collaborations with industry partners like IBM Research. Skilled in translating complex technical requirements into production-ready research software, he has deployed Nextflow pipelines, ML user interfaces and LLM serving frameworks in enterprise settings while mentoring junior engineers. His background in quantitative systems biology and pharmacokinetics (PhD, Manchester) underpins a track record of creating mathematical models and optimisation pipelines that directly supported clinical and regulatory outcomes. Beyond technical delivery, he contributes to grant strategy and review, bridging academia, government and industry to secure and steer computational research funding. Notably, he combines deep domain science with practical project delivery—turning high‑risk research ideas into funded, operationalised technology.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Systems Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Systems Biology at The University of ManchesterBachelor of Science - BSc (hons) Microbiology, Bachelor of Science - BSc (hons) Microbiology at Liverpool John Moores University
Github Skills (200)
docker-desktop10
nextflow10
chatbot10
keyboard9
distro9
colima9
archlinux9
uwp-apps9
ubuntu9
nf-core9
optimization9
handheld9
wsl29
trains9
flashing9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
scheckley/covid_analysis
Mar 2020 - Oct 2020
notebook of covid-19 outbreak data, visualisation confirmed cases and predicting future numbers
Contributions:2 PRs, 156 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
casespythonoutbreakvisualisationdata-science
scheckley/texstudio_monokai
Aug 2015 - Sep 2020
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
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